The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and Culture

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Página 23As for animal flesh, some members of the priestly Brahman caste reject it entirely;
but most Brahmans eat either eggs, poultry, or fish in addition to copious
quantities of milk and dairy products. Brahmans, at any rate, constitute a small
minority ...

Página 55I cannot say precisely how the Brahmans and Kshatriyas continued to obtain
cattle for their gluttonous feasts, but taxation, confiscation, or other coercive
measures would have been necessary once the peasants were unable or
unwilling to ...

Página 56The account I have just given of the struggle between Hinduism and Brahmanism
was first pieced together by Rajandra Mitra, a great Sanskrit scholar of the late
nineteenth century. This is what he wrote in 1872: When the Brahmans had to ...

Acerca del autor (1987)

Marvin Harris is an American anthropologist who was educated at Columbia University, where he spent much of his professional career. Beginning with studies on race relations, he became the leading proponent of cultural materialism, a scientific approach that seeks the causes of human behavior and culture change in survival requirements. His explanations often reduce to factors such as population growth, resource depletion, and protein availability. A controversial figure, Harris is accused of slighting the role of human consciousness and of underestimating the symbolic worlds that humans create. He writes in a style that is accessible to students and the general public, however, and his books have been used widely as college texts.